*taps the sign*

Highlight of the day: some flagshagger from the local fascist march going to hand me a flyer, making eye contact, and visibly recoiling. Chap, I've got a face full of piercings, vibrant hair, and a fresh side-shave. My iced chai is vegan. I am not one of you.

Drawing characters from behind. The rollercoaster that is relief that you don't have to figure out faces, only to realise you don't know what the back of their hair looks like

This wasn't meant to turn into a photoshoot, but here we are.

The pressure of needing to draw a moot's fave well. How do you artists do this on the regular?

I enjoyed painting today for the first time in literal years. (The first time I enjoyed it in years, that is, not the first time painting. Imagine.)

Veld, Elfe and Vincent wearing shirts with 'Survived Being Hojo's Lab Rat' written on them. Tseng wears one with 'survived' crossed out and 'avoided' written above it.

It's time we talked it out, lads. Vincent's arm. Armour/gauntlet or prosthetic/replacement? As far as I'm aware there's no canon on this, so no right or wrong answers! I'm team gauntlet the whole way (with a spicy twist of course), but what do you all think? Let's go!

I'm not reposting the entire image for at least fourteen different reasons, but can we at LEAST talk about the Gundam x Death Stranding imagery at the top here? Wtf was the prompt, like "Add some angels from a WWII flashback designed by Yoji Shinkawa"??

No hetero explanation for auron and jecht’s relationship

I was lurking on Dead Bird App recently and, uhh, someone's gonna have to tell me what the fuck is happening with Ever Crisis.

See a couple, post a couple. (Fuck it, why not)

Hrm, there are some I don't quite agree with, but overall that's not an inaccurate top ten ☺️

Slowly trying to creep back into existence but boy is it hard. It's so hard. It looks like I've missed a lot here though! Resisting the temptation to go back and reply to everyone's posts since the start of April 😅

I tried to do the sorter thing you're all talking about, then this happened and I just wanted to put my phone in the microwave instead.

Trying to untangle my feelings towards RPF/real people fic. Full disclosure, and without meaning to shame anyone, I personally find it cringe at best downright creepy at worse, but I wrote a LOT of it when we were kids. I recently found tonnes of it, and my god it was so so so cringe to -

I would like to personally thank the person two rows in front me in the cinema for sobbing through most of the second half of Project Hail Mary. It was reassuring that it wasn't just me 😅

I've not been doing too well, lads, but Artemis II is what's seeing me through. It's so human. It's so HUMAN. It's not influencers, it's not advertising, it's not some absolute fucking maniac playing big dicks with millions of lives. It's grown adults being lost for words at the wonder of the world.

Tseng of the Turks. #FinalFantasyVII #FinalFantasyviiRemake #fanart

STOP 👏 WRITING MULTI-CHAPTER OUTLINES 👏 FOR WORK 👏 YOU WILL NEVER 👏 WRITE 👏 You are currently BROKEN and CANNOT WRITE A SINGLE PROMPT, I can ASSURE you you are not writing a MULTI-CHAPTER EPIC. BEHAVE. (I say to myself, drawing out pages of a multi-chapter epic)

This is fucking delightful, and if no one makes fanart of this then we have collectively failed as ##shinrafuckers (please don't make me do it myself)

The responses are all so great, I'm sorry I'm just responding to them all with I LOVE THESE but I really do!

I'm going to say this once and only once, because I am not proud of it. I am not enjoying Death Stranding 2.

So hit me, what are the Turks' most regular hobbies? No meticulous weapons maintenance, no reading (as wonderful as Tseng looks with reading glasses), I want the confusingly tame stuff.

It was so lovely waking up today to so many posts about Turks Week 🥰 I'm sorry I once again bring nothing to the table, but I'm so glad this event has started so strong!

There are pairings/combos of characters I hold so sacred I can never risk writing about them, for my Weak Human Words will never do them justice.

Went to the barber for the first time since December (DON'T JUDGE, IT'S BEEN A ROUGH TIME LATELY), and he immediately declared "Mate, that's not a side-shave anymore, that's just neglect!" Thanks, buddy 🤣 (Side-shaves freshly reinstated now 🥰)

My BC baddies, i need some timeline help. When tf did Veld actually get married, and when in the grand scheme of things did Kalm happen? When were he and Vincent working together? Am struggling with his timeline in general (since I so badly bungled it for myself years ago 🤣)

One week into my two weeks sick leave. I keep being told I need to stop "trying" to get better. How does one not try to get better, I ask? Surely it doesn't happen naturally. (The worst past about this post is that I'm being 100% serious)

My partner asked where I'm playing and I accidentally answered "Nibelheim", so that bodes well 😅

Playing with a new taiko troupe out of town for the first time tomorrow 🥰

You would have seen me post this before, but it's still the story I'm most proud of, so I'm bringing it to the bsky #shinrafuckers Sides of a Coin, a three part series focusing on young Rufus, President Shinra, and the ever unreliable narrator Heidegger. Enjoy 😇 archiveofourown.org/series/2473390

He passed away 😔

DAY ONE OF RECOVERY. Took myself out for coffee to start to power down and gather thoughts. A gentleman in the coffee shop collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. Strong start.

Had a conversation with my GP today that went like this: 🧍‍♂️"Hi I need some time off so I can write Vincent & Tseng hate-fucking." 🩺 "That doesn't sound legit." 🧍‍♂️"Well, Tseng hates Vincent, but it's Vincent doing the fucking, so it's technically proxy-fucking?" 🩺 "Oh well then! Time off for you!"

Pleased to say I managed to avoid making any illicit propositions. I felt the stars align though, when I learned that he is Canadian and studied in Scotland (if you didn't know, my family are Canadian and Scottish 🤭) You can study my eyes forever, Canadian undercut man bun Tseng.

Man bun Tseng. Undercut Tseng? All of the above Tsengs. That is all.

I was going to post some nice gentle nostalgia about the GazettE but then ... uhh ... Well that happened.

Turk Week is happening!! It's organised on Tumblr (search #ffviiturkweek).

One of the main reasons I'm resisting calling in sick/pursuing this burnout issue is that I'm able to get out of bed & brush my teeth. I can sit at my desk. I can't call in without feeling like a fraud. I know there's more to it, but I just feel like such a failure I'm even failing at failing 🤣💀

I get so much inspiration from fanart, the thought of ever inspiring someone else in the same way is very literal magic 🖤

Everyone stop what you are doing and think about Rude.

I was SO close to being back on my bullshit, then today I pulled a twelve-hour shift with four hours of training delivery in the middle. My skull is wire wool, I have taken fewer than 500 steps, and my brain is WIRED but just in a merciless work way. I just miss fanfictionnnnnnnnnnnmmmmmmmlllllwaaaa

AM SO CLOSE TO BEING BACK ON MY BULLSHIT

I really want to write them arguing oh my god

Have been wanting to return to this so much lately, but I'm not brave enough with AUs. Set post-game, where they find a revived Sephiroth with no memory after Nibelheim

I'm not saying I am dangerously burnt out and now also getting sick, but my resting heart rate hasn't dipped below 90 all day 😭

Reno Origin Fic for #WIPWednesday

Last night I fell asleep to the thought of Tseng dreaming about being between Rufus and Sephiroth and my god I've never gone there but last night I absolutely definitely did.

Sometimes I get excited and point at the screen like a child when the word "chiral" is mentioned in Death Stranding, then I remember that's where I got my username from in the first place 🤣